The Touch-Hear is an innovative concept that could potentially change the way we look and interact with the world. At the moment, when you want to know something you have to look it up. And while this has been dramatically simplified over the years–after all, you can look up information online now, where before you had to resort to the library–you still have to go to an external source for information.
The Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland is all ready to be switched on September 10th, and while it could bring scientific breakthroughs, like proof of dark matter and other particles, some scientists and spectators are concerned that the device spells doomsday.
On launch day, the device will be turned on and the first proton will shoot down the collider. And even with the machine running at 450 GeV, which is under a tenth of the collider’s full capacity, and with no collisions expected (the protons are only being fired in one direction), some scientists are receiving threatening emails, death threats and concerned phone calls from people wanting the project shut down. The reason? Why, it will cause the end of the world, of course.
Director of consumer electronics at Samsung UK, Andy Griffiths, thinks Blu-ray may not have much time left in its lifespan. In fact, he believes the format has just five years left, ten at the absolute most.
And if we are to believe this analysis, Blu-ray would have already reached its peak. Since the players are already dropping in price and the next format is supposedly clear, Blu-ray would phase out very quickly. Samsung readily believes that OLED HD technology will be the next big format.
Manufacturing costs are all that’s holding this tech back at the moment, but Samsung predicts 2010 as the year OLED will make the move to mainstream affordability and replace LCD. The future is near, however. At IFA 2008, Samsung showed off two OLED TVs.
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A double-sided touch panel was recently shown at the 2008 Sign & Display Show in Tokyo and while it may look a bit primitive, it holds within it the potential to change touch tech. Developed by the Teraokaseiko company, we may very well see something similar to this technology in future PDAs and UMPCs.
The Sony IP Music Player has touch capabilities but not in the way you might have guessed. In fact, it’s rather retro and looks like a toy or game straight out of the 80’s, but it’s still pretty cool to look at.
This device was designed by Eijiro Mori and Takuo Ikeda and it has touch unlike any other. You place a stick in different spots on the player’s surface to create different sounds and animations. Just from the pictures, it reminds me of the Lite Brite I had as a kid.
There is another version of the IP Music Player that reads virtual files that you place on any desktop. Cool stuff but definitely outdated. Perhaps that’s the point. At any rate, don’t expect to get your hands on one soon as it’s only a concept.
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Scientific breakthroughs, especially those that pertain to the medical field never fail to amaze me. And this one is no different. Surgery might look a whole lot different in the future thanks to a tiny new technology called microgrippers.
Microgrippers could be swallowed by a patient and then would be activated by chemicals and magnets within the body. Incisions could become a thing of the past.
Australia-based company, Emotiv Systems has just developed EPOC, a headset that could make for a truly unique video gaming experience. In fact, this helmet can read your thoughts.
IKEA is known for their cheap furniture. And while their products may not be high-end, they get the job done. IKEA can afford to offer furniture so cheaply because they significantly cut costs by flat-packing their products which reduces shipping and storage prices. The only sacrifice is that you have to put the furniture together yourself.
If you have $1000 to spare, I know just the thing to put the finishing touch on your Halloween costume. Yes, I know Halloween is over two months away, but if you’re going to sport Cybertek Wings on the Hallowed Eve, you had better plan ahead.
A group of scientists at Reading University in the UK have developed a robot that is controlled by rat neurons. In case you’re wondering why anyone would take rat brain cells and stuff them in a robot, the answer is simple: to learn more about the human brain, how it works and potentially make progress in the battle against degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s.
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